LISTENING TO A TRAVELER
there you go in the dark
on the road I can't even see
but I hear the car go up the hill
and I can tell you are driving fast
is it a habit you don't even notice
or does some need make you speed
past me and the trees and the hill
on to where you feel you must get
even if it is only habit thinking nothing
of risk a careless way of going
even if you don't notice the speed
I wish you on and wish you safe arrival
I wish in fact that there is some need
drawing you there and that
the urgency goes away whenever
and wherever you come at last to rest